A Climate Change Technology Park will be set up next year where relevant practices and technologies for tackling global warming adopted in Bangladesh will be demonstrated.
The Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), an NGO, has been planning the park at Shreepur of Gazipur.
The message came from the Information Sharing and Policy Workshop yesterday at the city’s Spectra Convention Centre.
With an aim to create a knowledge hub on adaptation and mitigation, we decided to set up such a park, said Md Khalid Hossain, project coordinator of CCDB. Although several initiatives have been taken in Bangladesh, there has been very little coordination. CCDB wishes to compile them on a single platform.
The development practitioners as well as the local people can learn from the park the kind of methods that are fit for reducing specific vulnerabilities, he added.
According to the 5th Assessment report of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Bangladesh is at specific risks due to exposure to sea-level rise and extreme events like salinity, drought, erratic rainfall and tidal surge which will hamper the country’s food and livelihood security.
Khalid said the park will also showcase the indigenous knowledge that local communities have been practicing since, facilitating sharing of such knowhows with a wider audience.
